2026-09-18T16:47:28.404Z / 路透社
作者：乔纳森·艾伦
2026年9月18日 美国东部时间下午4:47 更新，3小时前
[1/3]2026年9月18日，在美国明尼苏达州圣保罗市沃伦·E·伯格联邦法院，因“南部地铁行动”期间枪击胡利奥·塞萨尔·索萨-塞利斯而面临相关刑事听证会的前美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）特工克里斯蒂安·卡斯特罗抵达法庭。路透社/蒂姆… 购买授权，打开新标签页查看更多
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- 出庭应诉前经历了漫长的引渡斗争
9月18日（路透社）——一名美国移民特工周五对联邦指控拒不认罪，该指控称其在1月唐纳德·特朗普总统的驱逐扫荡行动高峰期于明尼阿波利斯枪击一名委内瑞拉男子腿部前，曾向联邦调查局谎称自己遭到袭击。
已被停薪停职的美国移民与海关执法局特工克里斯蒂安·卡斯特罗，是首位因“南部地铁行动”中的不当行为被美国司法部起诉的联邦执法人员。该行动于去年冬季向明尼苏达州各城市部署了数千名武装蒙面特工。
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联邦检察官表示，卡斯特罗在告知调查人员24岁的胡利奥·索萨-塞利斯等人当时用扫帚和雪铲袭击他时开枪，其说法系谎言。
卡斯特罗在圣保罗美国联邦地区法院认罪的前一天，他就明尼苏达州亨内平县检察官提出的两项单独州指控作出回应：使用危险武器实施二级袭击以及虚假报案。
此次出庭应诉前，居住在德克萨斯州的卡斯特罗经历了一场长达数月的非同寻常的法律斗争，最终才被引渡至明尼阿波利斯。州指控于5月提出，但现年52岁的卡斯特罗在德克萨斯州一所县监狱被关押了90天，原因是共和党州长格雷格·雅培拒绝签署明尼苏达州民主党州长蒂姆·瓦尔茨提交的引渡文件。
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本月早些时候获释几天后，联邦大陪审团对其提出六项作出重大虚假陈述的罪名的起诉，他再次被捕，该项罪名最高可判处六年监禁。
卡斯特罗的律师表示，他于周三从德克萨斯州驾车前往明尼阿波利斯自首，并在亨内平县监狱过夜后保释出狱。
1月14日这起非致命枪击事件发生后，卡斯特罗告诉调查人员，他向委内瑞拉送货司机索萨-塞利斯开枪，是因为索萨-塞利斯和另一名男子在地面扭打时袭击了他。时任国土安全部长克里斯蒂·诺姆及其他特朗普政府官员曾重复这一说法，为当时遭到广泛抗议的明尼苏达州移民执法扫荡行动辩护。
检察官表示，视频证据推翻了卡斯特罗的说法，迫使司法部撤销对索萨-塞利斯的起诉，并对卡斯特罗展开刑事调查。
亨内平县检察官玛丽·莫里亚蒂表示，视频证据显示卡斯特罗当时站着，从索萨-塞利斯家的前门近距离开枪，击中了该男子腿部。
“卡斯特罗先生编造了一个借口，为自己朝一扇前门开枪、闯入有多人在内的住宅的行为辩护，”莫里亚蒂在周四的州法院听证会结束后对记者表示。“他射出的子弹嵌在了一间儿童卧室的墙里。”
卡斯特罗的律师丹尼尔·格茨拒绝置评。
莫里亚蒂的团队仍在调查1月份联邦移民特工枪杀两名美国公民蕾妮·古德和亚历克斯·普雷蒂的案件。
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ICE agent pleads not guilty to lying about Minneapolis shooting
2026-09-18T16:47:28.404Z / Reuters
By Jonathan Allen
September 18, 2026 4:47 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago
[1/3]Christian Castro, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis during Operation Metro Surge, arrives for a criminal hearing related to the incident at the Warren E. Burger Federal Courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., September 18, 2026. REUTERS/Tim… Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabRead more
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Sept 18 (Reuters) – A US immigration agent pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges of lying to the FBI that he was attacked before shooting a Venezuelan man in the leg in Minneapolis at the height of President Donald Trump’s deportation sweeps in January.
Christian Castro, who has been suspended without pay from his job as a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is the first federal law enforcement officer to be charged by the US Justice Department with wrongdoing in Operation Metro Surge, which saw thousands of armed, masked agents deployed to Minnesota’s cities last winter.
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Federal prosecutors say that Castro lied when he told investigators that Julio Sosa-Celis, 24, and others were attacking him with a broom and snow shovel when he fired his gun.
Castro’s plea in the US District Court in Saint Paul comes a day after he answered to separate state charges of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and falsely reporting a crime brought by Hennepin County prosecutors in neighboring Minneapolis.
The court appearances follow an extraordinary months-long legal battle to have Castro, who lives in Texas, returned to Minneapolis. The state charges were filed in May, but Castro, 52, spent 90 days in a county jail in Texas after Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, refused to sign extradition papers sent down by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat.
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A few days after his release earlier this month, he was arrested again after a federal grand jury handed down an indictment of six counts of making materially false statements, which carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison.
Castro drove from Texas to Minneapolis on Wednesday to surrender himself, his lawyers said, and spent the night in the Hennepin County jail before being released on bail.
After the nonfatal shooting on January 14, Castro told investigators that he fired at Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan delivery driver, when Sosa-Celis and another man attacked him in a struggle on the ground. His account was repeated by then Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump administration officials as they defended the widely protested surge in immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
Prosecutors say Castro’s account was disproved by video evidence, forcing the Justice Department to drop its prosecution of Sosa-Celis and open a criminal investigation into Castro.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the video evidence showed Castro was standing and fired from a short distance through the front door of Sosa-Celis’s home, wounding the man in the leg.
“Mr. Castro invented a story to justify shooting through a front door into a house with multiple people in it,” Moriarty told reporters after Thursday’s state court hearing. “The bullet he fired lodged in the wall of a child’s bedroom.”
A lawyer for Castro, Daniel Gerdts, declined to comment.
Moriarty’s office is continuing to investigate the federal immigration officers who fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both US citizens, in January.
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Reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Jesse Mesner-Hage and Alistair Bell
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